At 35,000 ft, travellers told BA flight will crash

Taped message played by accident in flight

Published Wednesday, January 18, 2012

When the flight was at 35,000 feet, passengers heard an announcement that they are going to crash in the Atlantic.

It was of course a taped message intended to play in case of emergency situations. But this time it was played by mistake.

The message said they will be shortly making an emergency landing on water.

There was terror and mayhem on-board a British Airways (BA) plane.

Passengers recounted screaming and crying. People thought the plane was going to crash into the dark ocean and they were going to die.

British Airways Flight 206 was over the middle of the Atlantic on Friday when the announcement was made and halfway from Miami to London's Heathrow Airport.

After about a minute, another announcement was played telling people to ignore the warnings.

An apology letter was handed out to the passengers after they disembarked from the flight.

Comments

Whatever 15 March 2012 12:00 0 0

Poor passengers.

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Ike 18 January 2012 23:17 0 0

Its always good to carry a Parachute lol

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JH 18 January 2012 09:56 0 0

This is the second time I've read about something like this from BA. The alst time this happened was in 2010 from London to Hong Kong.

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